Security News > 2023 > July > Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun. Secrets, Secrets (Stored in Plain Text Files) Hurt Someone

In a developer's or application security engineer's professional life, the consequences of exposing secrets can lead to breaches of security, data leaks, and, well, also be embarrassing.

Secrets are typically stored securely and accessed programmatically by the application when needed.

Attackers often target secrets to gain access to enterprise systems, data, or servers.

Safeguarding secrets in software supply chain security is essential to ensure that attackers cannot exploit them to compromise enterprise systems and data.

Use environment variables to store secrets: instead of hardcoding secrets in your code, store them in environment variables.

Use a secrets management tool: a secrets management tool can help securely store and manage application or system secrets.

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